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Define emotion

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emotions are biologically-based responses to situations that are seen as personally relevant. They are shaped by learning, and usually involve changes in peripheral physiology, expressive behaviour, and subjective experience

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what is mood?

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diffuse, long-lasting emotional states

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what is emotion?

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immediate responses to a specific object or situation

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What parts of the brain did Bartels and Zeki see to be activated as a result of love?

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romantic and maternal love activate a set of overlapping brain structures including cingulate cortex, insula, hippocampus and basal ganglia

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what is the theory of mind?

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the ability to represent the mental states of other people. it is mind reading. it is the understanding the context of other people’s thoughts.

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what is the part of the brain the correlates with mind reading?

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the temporal parietal junction

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What area is deactivated when we are in love?

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the temporal parietal junction

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what is oxytosin?

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the hormone involved in a variety of functions in relation to maternal behaviours such as urual contractions (for birth), and milk let down reflec as well as effects on the brain

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what are prarie voles?

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mammals that are mcnogamous, pair-bond after mating

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what are montane voles?

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promiscuous mammals

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what did Inse & yound discover?

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prairie voles have greater expression of ocytosin receptors in nucleus acumbens and pre-limbic cortex.

there are different behaviour patterns of female voles following mating in the two vole species

blocking of partner preference in female prairie voles by OT

12
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what is an neuro transmitter antagonist?

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blocks specific receptors and prevents the operation of that receptor

13
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what structures of the brain are inovolved in cocain induced euphoria?

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caudate, globus pallidus, hippocampus, hypothalamus, putamen, subtantia nigra

14
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what is emotion relating to?

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the visceria nervous system

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what are the two branches of the autonomic nervous system?

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sympathetic and parasympathetic

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what does the sympathetic nervous system do?

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fight or flight

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what happens during fight or flight?

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diated pupils
inhibits flow of saliva
accellerates heartbeat
dialates bronchi
inhibits digestion
relaxes rectum

(makes us active)

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what does the parasympathetic nervous system do?

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rest and digest

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what happens during rest and digest?

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consricts pupils
stimulates flow of saliva
slows heartbeat
relaxes bronchi
stimulates digestion
contracts rectum

(makes us calm)

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what is associated with high arousal?

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activity of the sympathetic nervous system

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what occurs diing high and low arousal

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excitement

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what is associated with low arousal

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association of the parasympathetic nervous system

23
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what shows a dimensional approach of emotion?

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negative valience and positive valence

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arousal (in the dimensions of emotion)

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high - excited tense

low - calm, lethargic

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valence (in the dimensions of emotion

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positive - elated contended

negative - sad gloomy

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what is the cannon-bard theory of emotion

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visceral changes occur too slowly to precede emotional expereicne –> cats with sympathetic nervous system removed still display emotiaonal reactions to baring dogs.

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what did schacter do?

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injected peopel with adrenaline

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what did schacter discover?

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in an emotion eliciting situation - with more adrenaline, more fear for a horror movie, more anger when insulted, more laughter for comedy with adrenaline. (but not if informed about adrenaline)

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what did scacter conclude?

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there is an interplay with cognition and bodily response

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what was the creaky bridge expriement?

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there were two bridges a not so safe one and a safe one. attractive female in the middlge of the bridge who asked subjects to fill out a questionairre and casually asks people if they have more questions he can cal her at home and proves her with phone number

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what was discovered in the creaky bridge experiemnt”

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the subjects on the dangerous bridge called, safer bridge fere calls

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what was the conclusion of the creaky bridge experiment?

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peopel experience higher degree of arousal when they are on the unsae bridge and this is interpreted as “im aroused, and must be attracted to this woman, and i will cal her”

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why is it important to have a full face of fear?

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to show others around yo uthere is danger

34
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what else in addition to experiencing feelings or bodily states prepare one for action?

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signalling intentions or emotional states.

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what is charles darwin’s perspective on emotion?

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o that they are functional (i.e. “fight or flight” activation) and confer survival advatage
o facial signals and expressions are universal
o facial signals are universal
o facial signals of emotion are not arbitrary

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what does it mean when emotions are categorical

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they have evolved in response to distinct evolutionary pressures and fulfill different functions

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what shows that facial signals are universal?

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the spontaneous facial expressions of emotion in athletes. a congenitally blind and noncongenitally blifht and sighted athletes had similar expressions after winning or losing.

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what are the two most mixed up emotions?

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fear and surprose?

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what is the most easily recognised emotion?

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happiness

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inferior occipital gyri in Haxby;s face processing system?

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early perception of facial features

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superopr temporal sulcus in Haxby;s face processing system?

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changeable aspects of faces - perception of eye gaze. Expression and lip movement

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Lateral fusiform gyus in Haxby;s face processing system?

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invariant aspects of faces - perception of unique identity

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Intraparietal sulcus in Haxby;s face processing system?

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spatially directed attention

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auditory cortex in Haxby;s face processing system?

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prelexical speech percetion

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amygdala, insula, limbic system in Haxby;s face processing system?

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emotion

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anterior temporal in Haxby;s face processing system?

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personal identity, name and biographical information

47
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what does it mean when emotions are not arbitrary?

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fear and disgust may perform opposite functions in terms of promoting versus inhibiting sensory input.

48
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what is the amygdala suggestion to be responsible for

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not only our eperience of fear but also of our capacity to recognise fear of other people

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what is the insula suggested to be responsible for?

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not only our experience of disgust, but aso for our capacity to recognise disgust being signalled by other people

50
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what happens when there are lesions in the amygdala

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selective impairment of fear recognition

51
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what did Calder, Lawrence and young find>

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image studies looking at fer conditioning (red dots) and viewing facial expressions of fear (green dots) both activate amygdala.

52
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what did Calder, Lawrence and Young conclude?

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aygdala is involved in both exprience and recognition of fear.

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what happened to monkeys when their amygdala was removed

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they are much more likely to reach out and pick up novel objects and put them in their mouths (less fear of danger)

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what happened to poeple with coritcal blindness in relation to fear blindsight

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their amygdala is being activated to a similar degree regardless to whether their fear stimuli is presented to their sighted firled or their blind field

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what happen to blind sighted patients in related to threat related faces>

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threat related faces evoke peripheral indices of fear.threat related response even when the patient has not consciously perceived the facial expression. These findings suggest that there is a fast subcortical processing stream that is secific for the detection of threat related materials.

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what happened in pre-symptomatic Huntington gene carriers

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impaired recognition of facial expressions of disgust they have reduced neural response to disgust faces in left dorsal anterior insula.

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what parts of the brain are activated by disgusted faces?

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right basal ganglia and bilateral insulae.

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what is the empathy simulation theory>?

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empathy involves mapping observed emotional states on the “neural machinery” that supports out personal experience of those emotions.

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what causes the overlapping region of anterior insula to be activated?

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smelling disgusting odorants and viewing the facially signalled disgust of others whilst smelling odorants.